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Nous avons reproduit, dans le numéro d'avril 1968 de la Revue internationale, un article dû à la plume de M. Boissier, ancien président du CICR, et qui avait paru dans le Journal de Genève. Celui-ci a publié récemment un article du même auteur sur un sujet auquel la Croix-Rouge, comme on le salt, voue toute son attention. Nous pensons done opportun d'en faire connaître à nos lecteurs les passages principaux. (Red.)Notre époque vit dans la confusion des idées et des mots. Ainsi, les instruments politiques ou juridiques créés pour maintenir ou restaurer la paix sont affaiblis par les imprécisions qui minent leurs fondements et par les malentendus qui brouillent leur vocabulaire.

In our April 1968 issue we published an article by Leopold Boissier, former President of the ICRC, which had appeared in the Journal de Genève. Later the same journal contained another article by the same writer, on a subject which is receiving the full attention of the Red Cross. We therefore consider it worthwhile reproducing here some of its main passages (Ed.).

No human institution is perfect and the International Committee of the Red Cross is no exception. The criticism most frequently levelled at this venerable body is its silence concerning some of its activities. How can it have a claim to eminence, how can it call powerful governments to account, without seeking the support of men of goodwill through divulgence of full information to the public?

The 20th award of the Florence Nightingale Medal is to take place in May 1965. Under the new Regulations adopted in August 1952 by the XVIIIth International Conference of the Red Cross in Toronto, the International Committee will not issue more than 36 medals, without any obligation, however, to award the whole number.

On n'insistera jamais assez sur l'importance capitale de cette année 1864, qui vit la naissance de la première Convention de Genève.

We have the honour to inform you of the official recognition, on August 22nd, 1963 of the Red Cross Society of Dahomey by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

We have the honour to inform you of the official recognition, on August 8, 1963, of the Red Crescent Society of Saudi Arabia by the International Committee of the Red Cross.This Society applied for recognition in a letter dated August 1, 1963. The application was accompanied by the Decree of June 8, 1963, of the Government of Saudi Arabia, recognizing the Society as an auxiliary to the army medical services, together with the text of the Society's Statutes and a report on its activities.

We have the honour to inform you of the official recognition on July 4, 1963, of the Red Cross Society of the Congo (Léopoldville) by the International Committee of the Red Cross.This Society applied for recognition by letter dated June 14, 1963. The application was accompanied by the Decree promulgated on March 1, 1961, by the President of the Republic of the Congo which accorded the Society recognition, together with the text of the Society's Statutes and a report of its activities.